Word Problems on Volume of Prisms

Q. A rectangular tank is one-fourth full of water. How much more water ($inc{m}^3$) needs to be added to completely fill it?

Q. If the thickness of the wall of the box is $1$ cm on all sides, find the amount of wood required to build this box.

1. $288$ cm${}^3$
2. $480$ cm${}^3$
3. $192$ cm${}^3$

Q. What will be the volume of this doll house?

1. $12000$ cm${}^3$
2. $10000$ cm${}^3$
3. $12000$ cm${}^3$
4. None of the above

Q. If the rate of burning is $2$ cm${}^3$ $/3$ min, how long will this candle burn?

1. $2$ hours
2. $1$ hour
3. $1.5$ hours

Q. The columns in the ancient palace were made up of triangular prisms that were 50 m tall. The base is a triangle with a side of 8 m and the perpendicular down to the 8 m side is 3 m. There were 200 such columns. If the cost of the material is 2/m${}^3$ . The total cost of materials needed to build all 200 columns would be

Q. Four people decide to beat the World record of voluminous snow prism. They created the following prism of height 30 m having parallelogram base of side 8 m and height 12 m. What is the volume of the snow prism?

1. 2560 m${}^3$
2. 2780 m${}^3$
3. 2780 m${}^3$
4. 2880 m${}^3$

Q. The columns in the ancient palace were made up of triangular prisms that were 50 m tall. The base is a triangle with a side of 8 m and the perpendicular down to the 8 m side is 3 m. There were 200 such columns. What volume of materials was used to make all the columns in the palace?

1. 100, 000 m${}^3$
2. 110, 000 m${}^3$
3. 120, 000 m${}^3$
4. 130, 000 m${}^3$